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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Toniann Rotante; Sarah Brem; Norma Hubele; George Runger; Kathryn Kennedy

production rule systems, and an ITS could switchmethods depending on what will best serve the student. For example, using rules to generateexplanations and cases to generate illustrations. In this research we are in the process ofdeveloping a CBR system. The CBR experience will help determine the utility of integrating theseapproaches in the future and, if so, the most effective way to do this.CBR is not merely a computational method, but a general approach to knowledge representationand problem solving. An important point is that it could be implemented by human instructors aswell as via an ITS. Existing research suggests a number of CBR enhancements. For example,students face three phases of problem solution, moving back and forth as they reach

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

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John Dempsey; Craig Totman

understand the fracture mechanics of concrete. As part of a pro-grammatic change that is under consideration in the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE) at Clarkson University (CU), the lecture portion of the course has beensupplemented by an in depth experimental component that requires students to design andperform concrete fracture tests following recommendations provided by the ACI Commit-tee 446.1 The programmatic curriculum change that is being considered is in response tothe ASCE Policy 465 and ABET assessments. These organizations recognize the fact thatchanges need to be made in current programs in order to better prepare the new breed ofengineer and guarantee the advancement of Civil Engineering.The teaching of fracture

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Engineering Technology Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

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Elaine Craft

technology.10 SC ATE makes availableto the two-year engineering technology community the following resources:• Technology Gateway curriculum, a pre-engineering technology curriculum for high school or slightly under-prepared college students.• Engineering Technology Core (ET Core) curriculum, a general education component for engineering technology majors.• Twenty-two workplace-related modules in the Technology Gateway and ET Core curricula.• Integrated, problem-based courses of study. The SC ATE approach teaches physics, mathematics, communications, and engineering technology concurrently in the context of solving multiple workplace-related problems.• Collaborative/active learning strategies.• Interdisciplinary faculty team development

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Knowing Students: Diversity & Retention

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2003 Annual Conference

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Joanne Hood; Elizabeth Bahe; Fonda Swimmer; Ingrid St. Omer

Session 1430The College of Engineering & Technology (CET) is the winner of the 1999 Boeing OutstandingEducator Award in recognition of our design sequence, Design4Practice. The Design4Practicesequence, taken by all students, is composed of a series of highly integrated design courses thatspan their program of study. This practice-oriented engineering curriculum, crafted withextensive input from industry, is built around a four-year interdisciplinary sequence of designcourses that introduce students to the design process early in their college careers, whileincreasing the complexity of design challenges throughout the four years of study. Strongemphasis is placed on modeling real-world design scenarios: students work in interdisciplinaryteams

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

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2003 Annual Conference

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Raj Mutharasan

EducationThis project was supported by Engineering Education and Centers Division of NSF (Award No.EEC 9109794 & EEC 9727413).About the AuthorRAJ MUTHARASAN, Frank A. Fletcher Professor of Chemical Engineering at DrexelUniversity, is active both in education research and conventional engineering research. He hasbeen an active member of the Gateway Coalition team since 1993, and has served as co-directorof curriculum development team (upper curricula) and late as Governing Board member of DrexelUnivesity. He is a fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and his area of research isbiochemical engineering. Page 8.1077.7 Proceedings of

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International Engineering Education II

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2003 Annual Conference

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Roger Hadgraft

Page 8.947.1 consistent with a quality approach, such as that expected by the AUQA 4 and the IEAust 3.Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education The first stage of this process is an engagement with stakeholders that is providing a more detailed view of the capabilities appropriate for each program.• Year themes are proposed as a way of focussing our attention on the changing needs of students at each year of our programs. The four themes are: o Connection to their own purpose in first year, to studying at university and to the profession o Fundamental principles (founded on practice) in second year

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Wilcher

functional requirements described in the POC design statement, the student willdesign the circuit, gather electronic components, pre-cut wires, and breadboard it using theelectronics learning lab, validating the results of the simulator experiment. An additionallaboratory project the EC engineering educator can create is to use the same requirements butprototype the simulator using an equivalent Sensor Lab. The Radio Shack Sensor Lab is adedicated electronics learning prototyping tool whereby a workbook with a wealth of circuits aredescribed in detail. A handful of integrated circuits, resistors, capacitors, several sensors, and pre-cut wire come packaged with the kit. The simulator project can be modified whereby the focus ofinterest is the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ravi Ramachandran; Kevin Dahm

, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1993.4. Young, D. Modern Engineering Economy, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY 1993.5. Dahm, K. D. “Interactive Simulation for Teaching Engineering Economics,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2002, Montreal.Biographical InformationKevin Dahm in an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. fromWorcester Polytechnic Institute in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Hisprimary technical area is in chemical kinetics and mechanisms. His current primar y teaching interest isintegrating process simulation throughout the chemical engineering curriculum, and he is r eceiving the 2003Joseph J

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tammy Gammon

required controlling a pump according to thelevel of ambient light. At night (darkness), the pump worked on an automatic timing cycle;during the day, the pump operated on a hysteresis cycle dependent on water level measurable inconductivity. At any time, the pump could be turned on manually by a push button. Thenumbers of times the pump was activated by automatic, hysteresis, and manual operations wasstored in and retrieved from memory (EEPROM).Overview of Course Structure The class meets for two hours twice a week. The unconventional ratio of credit hours toin-class hours was selected to integrate traditional lecture-style learning with laboratoryexperience. The number of credit hours earned equals the number of credit hours given for aone

Conference Session

Experienced-Based Instruction

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George List; Stacy Eisenman

provide it students with practical experiences. The civil engineering “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 3515program has successfully developed and implemented an annual event know as the Admiral LewisB. Combs Memorial Design Retreat, which acts as a unique, high intensity practical experiencefor it undergraduates. The department is also currently working on integrating a series of “Handson Experience” courses into the curriculum.Many things are important to consider in devising such a practical

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

number of sensor ports and interfacing capabilities. The HandyBoard includes 32K of battery-backed static RAM, a connector system that allows active sensorsto be individually plugged into the board, an LCD screen, and an integrated, rechargeable batterypack.The platform is supported with a nearly complete subset of the C programming language in aninteractive Windows-based environment called Interactive C (IC).7 A useful feature of IC is itsvirtual machine approach to executing programs. Most embedded systems rely on an edit-compile-link-download cycle. In contrast, IC provides a virtual machine that runs on the68HC11 and interprets pseudo-code (called "p-code") that is produced by the compiler. Thisapproach is similar to that employed by the

Conference Session

Graduate Education

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2003 Annual Conference

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Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

Power System Interactions, power quality, and grid-connected renewable energy applications.http://www.uni.edu/~pecenTERESA HALL: Teresa Hall is an associate professor and program coordinator for Manufacturing Technology in theDepartment of Industrial Technology at the University of Northern Iowa. She has a B.A. in Industry, a M.A. in Technologyand a Ph.D. in Industrial Education and Technology and is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer. Her research interests are inthe areas of manufacturing resource management, e-learning, and curriculum development for technical and professionalprograms. Page 8.1124.12Proceedings of the

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ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps

mechatronics creates specific teaching challenges. The disciplineis an integrative one rather than a narrowly defined specialty. Students tend to come into theclass from different disciplines with strong backgrounds in one of computing, electronics ormechanisms but may be quite ignorant of the other disciplines. At BYU we have chosen to usethe development of an autonomous miniature robot as the medium for teaching this diverse field.Students are strongly motivated by the experience of building a working unit and thus rapidlylearn those sub-disciplines in which they are lacking. Since students must define their ownsolution to the problem they will similarly define their own course of study.The pedagogical approach is to ensure that the class covers the

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

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2003 Annual Conference

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Staci Provezis; Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Larry Shuman; Siripen Larpkiattaworn; Obinna Muogboh; Dan Budny; Harvey Wolfe

is done either by taking the Calculus placement test (equivalent to aCalculus 1 final examination) or by receiving AP (advanced placement) credit for Calculus.Students were able to download the placement test from the web as part of their onlineadmissions testing. They were given instructions which warned them about the consequences ofcheating on the test or giving it to someone else. (Five different tests were randomly assigned tostudents as another way of eliminating an academic integrity incident.) Table 7 gives therelationship between placement score and grade in Calculus 2. A score of 15 was required to Page 8.1304.74

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

changes necessary for improved learning. Most faculty membersare already overloaded with teaching, research and service responsibilities, so even if theybelieve assessment is a useful activity they will often resist it as much as possible to avoid theextra workload. The key to overcome this resistance is to 1) make assessment an integral part ofthe basic course design structure and 2) provide templates and standard procedures for thefaculty to follow.Providing standard assessment procedures does not take away from faculty creativity andinvolvement in the assessment and continuous improvement process, it just focuses it on themost important items. The key is to communicate clearly the important information that must becollected for program

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mrudula Ghone; John Wagner

longitudinallywrapped wire) and a stator (i.e., stationary metal cylinder which contains permanent magnets orwire coils to produce a radial magnetic field). An electric current produces a magnetic field whichexerts a force on the armature causing a net torque. An understanding of a motor's physicaldesign, dynamic behavior, control architecture, system integration, and performance (e.g., torqueversus speed) is a key goal. Although motors may have been previously discussed in othercourses, the "hands on" servo-motor experiment allows students to explore a commercial gradecontroller operated with National Instruments hardware and LabView software. Specifically, theLabView program can perform data acquisition and the generation of plots via logged motorcontroller

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Session 1353 Using a Hands-On, Project-Based Approach to Introduce Civil Engineering to Freshmen James D. Bowen University of North Carolina at CharlotteAbstract At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the second semester freshman course“Introduction to Engineering” is discipline specific. This course gives students an introductionto the particular discipline (Civil, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical) through a project-basedexperience. In Civil Engineering, this course has involved the conceptual design of a Civilstructure

Conference Session

ET Capstone Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

. Curry, D. T., “Engineering Schools Under Fire”, Machine Design, pp. 50-54, October 10, 1991.8. Doepker, P. E., “Integrating the Product Realization Process (PRP) Into the Design Curriculum”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, 1999.9. Evans, D.L., Shunk, D.L., “Attributes for the Baccalaureate Engineer: What are the Desires of Industry?”, Proceedings of 3 rd World Conference on Engineering Education, 1992.10. Felder, R. M., Bent, R., “Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction”, College Teaching, pp. 43-47, 1996.11. Katzenbach, J. R. and Smith, D. K., "The Discipline of Teams", Harvard Business Review, Cambridge, MA., 1993.12. Kaufman, D.B., Felder, R.M., Fuller, H., “Accounting for Individual Effort in

Conference Session

New Programs and Success Stories

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel; Paul Stiebitz

intellectual property hygiene, interest to each individual. Use a contrived hammer disclosure as an example.5 Intro. to Project Project planning fundamentals. Use MS Submit project plans and process Planning. Project in a studio lab to prepare a plan for instruction sheets for the current RIT building the existing hammer. hammer.6 Team Dynamics (a) Establishing Team Values and Norms (b) Review on-line learning materials, come and Team Integrated Product / Process Teams ( c) Role prepared for questions and activities about Interactions Play personality Types (d) Difficult people

Conference Session

Teaching Design with a Twist

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Masi

process from mini-design problems, which focus on problem solving skills, to majorcapstone design projects, which encompass many skills 2, 4, 9, 26, 30, 31, 33, 35, 47. Leifer has notedthat instructing students in the engineering design process provides an opportunity forintroducing constructivist learning experiences into engineering student classroom activities 22.He drew on Kolb’s experiential learning model which describes learning as taking place in aniterative cycle of four basic steps: reflective observation, concrete experience, activeexperimentation, and abstract conceptualization. Based on this cycle, Leifer suggests thatengineering design and technical concepts should be intertwined. In this way, students can bestlearn technical

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard O'Brien; Jenelle Piepmeier

helicopter orinverted pendulum. At the Naval Academy, these experimental products have been invaluable inthe controls education.It is important that engineering educators be aware of limitations of these canned experimentalproducts. Agrawal has correctly pointed out that the integration of the equipment can easilyoverwhelm limited resources of both time and departmental budgets [3]. Bissell has also notedthat some of the canned experiments are so carefully engineered that they become more of anillustration in theory and less of an experience in control system design [6]. Even with a well-equipped laboratory, there are courses and student projects for which this equipment is either notavailable or suitable.This paper discusses the use of a Simulink

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Burbank

angle selection. A separate analog section is presented which containsa band pass circuit, generating an output suitable for spectrum analysis.Relevance to EET programThe junior level curriculum at WCU includes a course in digital electronics, covering sequentialand combinational circuits. While some lab work is done with TTL devices, many of the labsare performed using the Altera MAX+PLUS II software, and the Complex Programmable Logic Page 8.959.2Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationDevices (CPLD) on the Altera UP-1

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Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

Calculation, Long Calculation, etc.? How many versions of an examination arenecessary? What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving the examinations during theregular class periods, verses during an available common hour for the students of all theinstructors? This paper will discuss possible solutions to these questions, as well as how toeffectively use multiple graders, and the role of the restrictive and sometimes controversial cutscale. Student course assessment data will be presented to illustrate the positive and negativeeffect on student motivation, i.e. learning, when there is a perception of unfairness in theexaminations or homework issued and/or subsequent grading.Introduction In the over 200 years West Point has been an

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hy Tran; Catherine Clewett

structures to illustrate the kinematics and geometry of MEMS devices.Additionally, the students are exposed to science and engineering in the ways that it ispracticed—in groups, with collaboration, using software as a design aid, and focusing oncommunication.This project also address nine of the sixteen standards in science for grades 5-12 as publishedby the New Mexico State Department of Education. In particular, the curriculum will reinforcemany of the content standards in the physical sciences as well as technology and the history ofscience6. For example, Content Standard 2 Section C for grades 5-8 says the student will C. Design and Develop Models. 1. Develop an understanding that models take many forms and have

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Innovative Hands-On Projects and Labs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Kadlowec

Session 1368 Combining Laboratory Innovation and a Design Experience into Tools for Mechanics Jennifer Kadlowec, Frank Brown, Aditya Chaubal, Joe Plitz, Michael Resciniti, Paris von Lockette, Eric Constans, Beena Sukumaran, Douglas Cleary Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028AbstractHands-on laboratories and the engineering design process are valuable experiences by which toenhance undergraduate engineering education. This paper discusses the integration of an NSFsponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Innovation project, the

Conference Session

Web Systems and Web Services

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Huggans; Steve Watkins; Halvard E. Nystrom

. Page 8.814.5 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education The ALN tutorial modules were used in a graduate/senior-level elective electricalengineering course (EE326 - Fiber and Integrated Optics) at the University of Missouri –Rolla.2 A common perception exists that engineers are sequential learners. Howeverthese students had a wide range of learning style scores and a slight majority were globallearners. Most students had scores that were mildly global or sequential. As shown inFigure 1, the distribution on the sequential/global scale follows the normal distribution.This was not an expected outcome since

Conference Session

Tools of Teaching and Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

being overwhelmed or discouragedby it.Intra-personal and inter-personal conflict, such as internal uncertainty, dissonance between one’sdesires and abilities, and perceptions of problems in other people, are inevitable in our lives andjobs. Learning to deal effectively with these conflicts is essential to becoming an effectiveengineer. This starts with realizing that there can be value in conflict. Conflict motivateslearning because people do not like to repeat frustrating, embarrassing, or painful experiences.Conflict inspires innovation by illuminating areas of misunderstanding, invalid assumptions,personality or value differences that, when explored, can result in greater value to everyoneinvolved.To maximize learning, it is important to

Conference Session

Mentoring Women and Minorities

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Linse; Rebecca Bates

engineering students titled "Active Learning inEngineering Education." The objective of the course was to provide engineering graduatestudents with information about the learning process and resources on teaching and academia tohelp them make informed decisions about teaching as a career and to help them be betterteachers. We believe this course is unique because it provides a curriculum taught to graduatestudents by a graduate student. This work was funded by a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship, aprogram that provides support for teaching projects conducted by graduate students paired withmentors.1I. IntroductionPreparing engineering graduate students for a future in academia should include providingmethods and support for teaching as well as guidance in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Sluss

electricalsciences, telecommunications today is strongly rooted as an independent academic discipline.Although the telecommunications industry has well-equipped laboratories for its R&D, suchlaboratories at universities are usually lacking and often treated as incremental additions over thoseof the allied disciplines like electrical and computer engineering. The University of Oklahoma isone of a select group of universities that offers a graduate degree in Telecommunications Systemsout of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In recognition of the need to have a well-equipped laboratory as an integral component of any engineering program, the University ofOklahoma established, in 2001, an Interoperability Laboratory to provide the best

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

Server. Individualquestions are stored in the system for easy retrieval using a searchable database backend.WebAssign.net has a database of thousands of questions including those from major science andengineering publisher’s textbooks. Also, colleagues from various institutions can sharequestions they have written and entered into the question database.As many numbers, words, phrases, graphic files, sound files, and video files as one would likecan be randomized, so that each student receives a different version of the same question. Thisprovides an added measure of question integrity. The symbolic question type allows one to posequestions that a student answers as a formula. Any formula that is equivalent to the answer willbe marked as correct